hods

V-shaped mortar troughs

Hods is the plural of hod, a V-shaped trough with a long handle used by construction workers to carry bricks or mortar on the shoulder.

The term appears in contexts of manual labor and traditional building trades: Workers filled their hods with fresh mortar.

A coal hod is a bucket for carrying coal to a fireplace.

bricklaying

mortar

Grinding bowl or binder

bricklayer · mason · shoulder · carrying · courses · pointing · plastering · cement · workman · apprentice

container

bucket

Open-top carrying vessel

  • pailOpen-topped carrying vessel
  • scuttleSink intentionally; hurried shuffle
  • V-shapedTwo lines meeting angularly

coal · receptacle · trough · carrier · vessel · bin · box

coal

scuttle

Sink intentionally; hurried shuffle

carrying · bucket · domestic · Victorian · chimney · kindling · ash · fireside · household

labor

carrying

Holding and moving

  • haulingTransporting heavy items
  • loadCarried weight or burden
  • burdenOppressive weight or duty

toil · lifting · shoulder · climbing · scaffolding · manual · physical · exertion · drudgery · effort

Opposites
carrying method

hodswheelbarrows

One-wheeled manual carts

forklifts · conveyor belts · cranes · dollies · hand trucks

load capacity/scale

hodscement mixers

Rotating drums for concrete

dump trucks · silos

Family

hod, hodman

Familiarity
Top 1,000,000
Profile
Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Rated G